High demand for plantain flour pushes Peppy’s to eye foreign market

Packaging Peppy’s Plantain Flour

From its humble beginning in 1971 as a modest manufacturing establishment – trading at the time as Mohammed’s Manufacturing Enterprise in Sussex street Albouystown – Peppy’s Foods has gradually become a household name in the local Agro Processing sector.

First, chowmein then vermicelli were its best known products. These days, plantain flour has risen to the top of the pile and doing well…so well that the company’s proprietor, Khalil Mohammed boasts of selling more than 3,000 packets of the product every week. Demand for the traditional Guyanese porridge item is high but, according to Mohammed, plantain flour has now slipped the local leash and is making a bold and aggressive bid for the external market.

Mohammed says that his own feedback suggests that the growing popularity of the product has to do with its reported health benefits. He says that his customers find plantain flour to be a healthy, high-energy food and that he has been placing it on the market at an affordable price for more than thirty years. Plantain flour, he says, has made a name for itself as a